Chapter 306 The battle is over, and the sleeve is locked

This big showdown.

It should be said that the opponents of taxation won, completely prevailed, the emperor's attempt to collect taxes did not succeed, as for the voluntary payment of taxes, it is purely the emperor himself in the "house", it is fun to go alone, we do not accompany us, the dynasty is scattered, the emperor is gone, and the opposition is triumphant.

The imperial party was a little depressed, of course, they were not without gains, and Liu Yanyuan won himself two million taels of military spending.

Bi Ziyan felt very disappointed, obviously, today's Ming Dynasty urgently needs to use taxes to fill the holes in the imperial court, but unfortunately, the officials have always refused to let go, and the collection of taxes is always far away, Bi Ziyan can only sigh secretly, the money bags of the Ming Dynasty are very deflated, and they don't look like an imperial treasury at all, even if they are some big families, they are much richer than this country.

"Jinghui, what's the matter, it seems to be very low" Sun Chengzong did not leave, Sun Chengzong was waiting for the emperor's summons, and saw Bi Ziyan sighing there alone, and asked intentionally or unintentionally.

"It's Lord Sun, Xiaguan has seen Lord Sun." Bi Ziyan came back to his senses from the deep sense of powerlessness, and when he saw that it was Sun Chengzong who asked him, he hurriedly returned the salute and agreed.

"No need to be polite, I don't seem to be in a very high mood when I see you," Sun Chengzong asked.

"Alas......, Lord Sun, the deficit of the Ming Dynasty, the adults also know, except for the addition of commercial taxes, mining taxes, there is no other way, but unfortunately, now the officials are very opposed, there is no possibility of collecting taxes at all, today's matter, the adults also saw it, if Your Majesty wants to collect taxes again, I am afraid that it will be the same today again, it will be dangerous to go on like this, now I am Ming, but it is all supported by His Majesty's internal funds, and the money that His Majesty pasted in, I am afraid that it is not a small amount, and there are tens of millions of taels...... alas...... It's embarrassing for Your Majesty......" As soon as Bi Ziyan talked about the finances of the Ming Dynasty, it was a headache, and when he met the boss of the imperial party, he couldn't stop complaining.

"Jinghui, there is no need to be so depressed, Your Majesty is talented and intelligent, and has an extraordinary talent for making money, Jinghui does not need to worry too much, presumably, Your Majesty has already taken countermeasures, and now, Jinghui only needs to do his job well, and look good for His Majesty ...... the household, and the rest, don't think too much, let alone complain in frustration" Sun Chengzong saw that Bi Ziyan of the imperial party was depressed, and he also came to explain, some things, for various reasons, it is impossible for everyone in the imperial party to know, and Sun Chengzong can only remind Bi Ziyan, so that he should not be too depressed and affect his work.

"Lord Sun is right, Your Majesty's sage is rare in the world, and it is blessed by a god and man, presumably, it should be ...... without hindrance" Speaking of gods, Bi Ziyan remembered the mystery of the emperor's prediction of the celestial phenomena that day, and the emperor's dream of the gods and men telling the dream, but it has been verified, but now those officials oppose the emperor's taxation, and they use the reason that God sent down punishment, and use the heaven and man to induce that set, if the emperor really has a god and man to dream, is it a punishment from heaven, Is it because His Majesty became the emperor that there have been a series of natural disasters, isn't the emperor better than the ministers? However, I didn't see how the emperor argued, just blindly tolerated it? It's ......

Bi Ziyan seemed to "see" something, and then think about it, the emperor is like a comet-like rise A year ago, from an inconspicuous king of letters, he became the emperor in a blink of an eye, in just half a year, he overthrew Wei Zhongxian, who was known as nine thousand years old, all kinds of actions, it is really like divine help, not to mention the large-scale immigration and disaster relief of tens of millions of taels of silver, it is really an unheard of move The emperor made a decision between talking and laughing, and all kinds of other deeds, it can only be said that there is really God and man to help, The emperor really cannot be seen as cowardly, or incompetent.

"Thank you Lord Sun for reminding me, the lower official thanked the lower official for understanding, and the lower official will definitely try his best to do his job." Bi Ziyan seemed to understand something, and instead thanked Sun Chengzong.

"No thanks, Your Majesty is quite optimistic about Jinghui, Jinghui must not live up to Your Majesty's trust." Sun Chengzong said with a smile.

……

While the two were talking, the little eunuch came to invite Sun Chengzong.

"Master Sun, I have found you, Your Majesty invites you to go to the Qianqing Palace." The little eunuch said happily to Sun Chengzong.

"Thank you, father-in-law, Sun will go." Sun Chengzong didn't leave "after work", just waiting for the emperor's summons. ,

"The lower official has resigned...... Bi Ziyan saw that the emperor had summoned Sun Chengzong, made a salute, and left.

Sun Chengzong arched his hand, which can be regarded as a return gift.

……

Yang Reform is in the court today, and he pretended to be hard and returned to the Qianqing Palace, so he didn't need to pretend, drove away the eunuchs, the palace maids, and hid in the Qianqing Palace alone.

"Your Majesty, Master Sun has arrived." Wang Chengenyu reports.

"See you." Yang Gai can't wait to share his joy with others.

Before the ceremony was over, Yang Gai said with a smile: "Master Sun, the big thing has been done, the big thing has been done, the fish has been hooked, and the sleeve is trapped." ”

Sun Chengzong is one of the few people who know the emperor's secrets, and has participated in the emperor's various plans, this kind of big event, how many winds and waves Sun Chengzong has experienced, when he heard these arrangements from the emperor's mouth, he was also frightened, his scalp was numb, the emperor was never as smiling as he seemed on the surface, easy to get along with, gentle, and never cowardly, thinking that the emperor was a bluffer, a person with a head hanging on the head of Fengyang Mansion, and one more, Qin Cha had already gone to borrow someone's head.

Now, the progress of things is completely in accordance with the emperor's plan, step by step, Sun Chengzong wants to be happy, but he wants to cry more, he wants to cry more, and he wants to pick up his sword and cut people around.

Sun Chengzong's smile is bitter, the emperor's plan is implemented, how many colleagues work together, how many same years, how many friends have to be involved, the Ming Dynasty will undergo earth-shaking changes.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, Your Majesty has taken another step towards your goal." Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly, and said hello to the emperor.

"Hehe, this group of thieves, if you don't eradicate it, my Ming will never be able to get a new life, only by killing them all can I bring my Ming to life,...... Hehe, to say something unlucky, my Ming Dynasty has also lasted for more than 200 years, counting, among many dynasties, it can be regarded as old, and it can be regarded as the late stage of a dynasty, hehe, this contest, if I can't succeed, I'm afraid of my Ming, the day of destruction is not far away, ah, hehe, this is your life-and-death contest Ah fortunately, I won a step, and then as long as the time is right, gradually tighten the control of Shanxi, when the time is ripe, at the latest but the end of this year, the traitors on the Shanxi side, Hehe, hehe, with the evidence of their collaboratorship and betrayal of the country, and then involve them and other businessmen, hehe, at that time, I see what those fools can say, when the time comes, I will break the situation of not collecting taxes in business, and not collecting taxes in one fell swoop, whoever does not pay taxes will be traitors and enemies of the world, I will break all kinds of rules and rules today, and re-establish new rules, new rules, to find a way out of life for my Ming Dynasty, and also to make my people of Ming Dynasty avoid the suffering of reincarnation in the last days......"

Yang Reform was quite excited, and talked to Sun Chengzong about his grand plan and shared his joy.

"The group of fools who oppose the collection of taxes in today's hall, I am afraid they would never have dreamed that as soon as the Shanxi Jin Shang case broke out in the future, there will be countless evidence to prove that the Jin merchants were traitors, secretly helping the Dongyu, in order to help the Dongyu, in order to be the minister of the dragon in the future, they deliberately secretly brought down our Ming Dynasty, not only to send materials, food, and weapons to the Dongyu; He also colluded with other big businessmen from all over the country to resist taxes, and even bribed the minister to block me from collecting taxes, in order to help reduce the pressure on the Dongyu, so that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to encircle and suppress the Dongyu, so that the Dongyu could gradually grow stronger until the ......day when he entered the customs and sat on the throne, hehehe, when the time comes, the evidence is conclusive, I want to see what those fools will do, what kind ......of face is it, I want to take this golden opportunity to push the officials to the ground in one fell swoop, and eliminate those bureaucrats who do not pay taxes and resist taxes in one fell swoop. Big businessman, I want to make voluntary tax payment a conscious part of everyone, and I want to rewrite history......"

In order to deal with the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty and to make money, he thought of many ways, but it was all tinkering, changing the soup and not changing the medicine, only this is the only way to completely solve the financial shortage of the Ming Dynasty. As soon as the Shanxi Jin Shang case broke out, who would dare not pay taxes? Immediately detain the crime of collaborating with the enemy and harming the country, raid the house, and kill the head.

Sun Chengzong was half happy, half painful. Needless to say, the pain is that he is also a member of the Donglin Party, and he is a figure like an anti-target, but now the emperor's layout, on the surface, is aimed at Shanxi Jin merchants, but at a deep level, it is aimed at the big businessmen of the whole country, especially the big businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the big businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the main force against tax collection, when the ancestors of the gods, kill the tax supervisors, the most fierce tax resistance is them, do not cut them, the emperor will never be able to collect taxes, and once the emperor wins, I don't know how many colleagues are involved. ,

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, from now on the court will no longer be short of money......" Sun Chengzong put his troubles aside and congratulated the emperor.

"Hehe, yes, I'm Da Ming, everything is good, but I can't collect taxes, it's really nothing to say, it's the Achilles heel of my dynasty, hehe, I can collect taxes, no matter how bad the disaster is, I use a huge amount of silver to scatter it, I don't believe that the disaster can't be quelled, when there is a foreign invasion, I don't believe it, I don't win, who dares to say no word to my Da Ming? Although it is thousands of miles away, it will be killed. Yang Gai was overjoyed and gave impassioned guidance.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the tax revenue of my dynasty is indeed quite small, and many dynasties can not be compared, even if the Song Dynasty only has half of the country, it is also several times the income of our dynasty, this is indeed a big problem, because the court does not have enough silver to rely on, once there is a big problem, it will be helpless, this is indeed the crux of our dynasty, however, the national policy of hiding the wealth of the people set by Taizu back then, there is still a reason for him......" Sun Chengzong has more contact with the emperor, and now he has seen it, and he has become more and more serious about the word money.

"Hehe...... so this thing must succeed, and the current rules must be smashed in one fell swoop, and it must not fail,...... The rule set by my Taizu to hide the wealth from the people, but it doesn't say that if you are rich, you don't have to pay taxes, the more you pay, the more it shows that the policy of our dynasty is better, otherwise, how can he be rich? Master Sun, did you say? Yang Gengai explained with a smile.

"This ...... Your Majesty also has some truth, hehe, the minister said that His Majesty ......, but the minister wants to ask, can Liulizhai really pay 200,000 taels of taxes a year? Sun Chengzong faced all kinds of "crooked reasoning" of the emperor, and he didn't want to refute it, and the emperor could always find all kinds of novel reasons to convince himself. Sun Chengzong has always been concerned about the fact that a merchant can pay a tax of 200,000 taels in the court, and 200,000 taels is the income of two medium-sized governments. The Ming Dynasty only had two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there were only one hundred and forty prefectures in total, if the tax paid by a merchant could be offset by two medium-sized prefectures, then, that is, seventy such merchants were equivalent to doubling the income of the Ming Dynasty.

"Hehe, this matter is true, Liulizhai estimates that it is not a problem for me to earn 100,000 taels this year, I have also invested a lot of money in it, Master Sun asked about it?" Yang Reform was also curious, why did Sun Chengzong ask about this? Instead of rejoicing that you have trapped that group of idiots?

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks, if one merchant can be worth two medium-sized mansions, then, if I am in the one hundred and forty mansions, isn't it seventy such merchants who can double the income of my dynasty? Well, the meaning of the minister is just an analogy, of course, there are nearly 200 states in our dynasty, and the minister means ......" Sun Chengzong hurriedly explained.

"Hehe, Master Sun really underestimates those who do business, don't say anything else, let's talk about the city, if you can collect them all, millions of taels a year, tens of millions of taels of silver, it's not difficult, the problem is that you can't collect it now, and you can't collect it; The salt tax, also can't be collected, I don't know who did the good thing, it should have been nearly 10 million taels of silver salt class, now I can receive a million taels every year, just these two items, it can be worthy of the field tax of our dynasty, you can end the situation that our dynasty completely relies on the field tax to live, and only in this way, what, save the people's power, repair and rest, let the people benefit, for the sake of the people These statements are reliable, after all, the vast majority of our dynasty is still farmers who farm for a living, do not increase taxes from them, and make the court rich, that is the right way. Yang Gengai happily explained to Sun Chengzong.

"The tariff of the city? Sun Chengzong thought about ......it, and felt that he didn't have much research in this area, and he couldn't say anything, and the bureaucrats shouted not to collect tariffs and not engage in coastal patrol, which was wasting the people's fat and people's ointment, and looting the people's fat and ointment, and on the other hand, what else could they say about their own smuggling?

"This salt lesson ......, actually...... This ...... "Sun Chengzong is very clear about the salt tax, why did the emperor's salt tax fall directly to one million taels?" There is also a reason for this, but there is not much to say, now that the emperor's game of chess is played, not to mention customs duties, salt taxes, I am afraid that even the mining tax will have to be uprooted, and all taxes will have to be paid in the future, and it will not work if there is one less. ,

"Huh...... Master Sun, you don't have to doubt it, just by virtue of commercial taxes, let my finances multiply, this is no problem at all, taxes are taken from the people, and they are also used by the people, if I just want to get some expenses for myself, hehe, I really don't need the idea of collecting taxes, I can live well every year by relying on Liulizhai, don't you say? Don't talk about it, let's just say that the Song Dynasty, that is, half of the country, is also a perennial confrontation with the enemy, but the income is several times that of my Ming Dynasty, hehe, from this point of view, the industrial and commercial tax to save the country, Master Sun does not have to doubt it. "Yang Reform once again popularized the matter of recovering taxes to Sun Chengzong.

"Alas...... The minister knew about it, but, alas...... Seeing so many of their colleagues fall later because of such disgraceful things,...... In the minister's heart, it is really a mixed taste...... "Sun Chengzong is also troubled, this kind of thing, you can't say it to others, and you can only spit out bitterness to the emperor."

"Hehe, Master Sun, if you don't break it, you can't stand it, only by breaking and crushing all the original can you build a new and better thing on this basis, isn't it? Some people are completely inferior to the country for their own interests, regardless of the safety of my Daming, the building will collapse, these people are still digging the pillars of the building, this kind of person is not worthy of sympathy" Yang reformed.

"What Your Majesty said is very ......, but there is one thing, Your Majesty must be prepared, otherwise, you will not be able to promote this matter at that time" Sun Chengzong remembered something and reminded the emperor.

"What Master Sun said is a matter of public opinion? Hehe, I have already prepared for this matter, this is the Xindi newspaper that just came out today, Master Sun, take a look. Yang Reform said with a smile, this set is in prison, the newspaper is also out, and the case of Shanxi Jin Merchants will be fried in the future, and the overwhelming naval army will be launched, and those people in the Ming Dynasty will not stop cooking?

Sun Chengzong curiously took the newspaper handed over by the emperor, looked through it, and was very interested in this kind of one-piece newspaper. The handwriting on it is also quite clear, the content on it is divided into many sections, there are special introductions to the government, the emperor's orders, the personnel of the central government, etc., and the traditional Di Bao is no different, and there are some officials' advice, etc., strange people and strange things in various places, customs and something is also there, it seems, and the content of the old Di Bao, there is no too difference.

"Master Sun, this thing is the new Di newspaper I made, each Di newspaper sells for ten yuan, using movable type printing, today's court discussion, tomorrow morning, it will become such a Di newspaper distributed to all parts of the capital, hehe, with this thing as a witness, in the future, those fools are a hundred mouths, don't think about overturning the case." Yang Gai said hatefully.

"Ten cents? Is that cheap? Your Majesty, is this true? Sun Chengzong asked in disbelief.

"It's true, books used to be expensive, that's because engraving takes effort and time, the paper is better, and the quantity sold is limited, so the price is more expensive, but my Xindi newspaper is different, it uses movable type printing, and the quality of the paper is not good, just to read the words, and the quantity is also quite large, so the price will be so cheap......"

"But how did Your Majesty's newspaper make it into a piece of paper? Isn't it like the previous Di newspaper, made into a book? Sun Chengzong asked puzzled.

"Hehe, actually, this is simple, I have just said, make it into a piece of paper, everything is printed on it, in the future, so as not to be wronged by that group of idiots, hehe, the cost of binding the newspaper, I am still afraid that they will say that I secretly ordered the content up, and now it is made into a piece of paper, once it is issued, there is no room to change the words, hehe, I want to crucify them......" Yang Gai said with a smile.